PSYC 2130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Weaning, Genital Stage, Anal Retentiveness
6 Nov 2017
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A drive is an inborn, intrapsychic force that produces tension which must be relieved. Sexual that deals with physical and psychological pleasure through thoughts, ideas, images, actions -- called libido. Aggressive or death drive or instinct that opposes the life-self-preservative or libidinal forces. 4 (cid:272)hara(cid:272)teristi(cid:272)s of freud"s theories: all share common characteristics, dynamic: Exchange and transformation of energy within personality. Psychic energy (or libidinal energy) derived from the instincts. Psychic energy is mobile it can be moved from idea to idea, image to image, object to object. Fixed amount, can not add or remove. Ex. thinking of a person and investing energy in thinking, not being able to do other things: deterministic: All behaviour is determined (e. g. , slips of pen and tongue, forgetting, mispronunciations, ordinary-everyday evidences of unconscious determination of behaviour). Freudian slips are errors made in speech, writing and readings that reveal something about the perso(cid:374)"s (cid:862)i(cid:374)(cid:374)er(cid:863) thoughts or real i(cid:374)te(cid:374)ts: organizational:
